The United Nations/European Space Agency workshops on basic space science are a long-term effort for the development of astrophysics and space science and regional and international cooperation in this field on a world-wide basis, particularly in developing nations. The first four workshops in this series (India (1991), Costa Rica and Colombia (1992), Nigeria (1993), Egypt (1994)) explored the ...

During the last decade, pilot studies and focused projects have established the efficacy of the Internet in developing nations;1 however, connectivity remains uncommon and it is generally slow and unreliable.2 The developing nations are too poor to attract sufficient capital to build modern Internet infrastructure.3 The activity of the past decade has had positive results. All governments are n...

Ferries and other passenger vessels provide a crucial mode of transportation for many in the developing world, especially in archipelagic nations like Indonesia and in river delta nations like Bangladesh. However, this dependence on passenger vessels coincides with a high rate of accidents and fatalities in many countries, linked to purchase of old, substandard, and/or inappropriate vessels in ...

Previous studies have found that the substantial cross-national variation in women’s legislative representation is not explained by cross-national differences in socioeconomic development. We re-visit an existing study and demonstrate that economic development does matter. Accepted explanations fit rich nations much better than poor nations and obscure the effects of democracy on women’s repres...